Background
Grass, Günter Wilhelm was born on October 16, 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr (now Gdañsk), Poland. Son of Willy and Helene (Knoff) Grass.
( Flood; Mister, Mister; Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo; The...)
Flood; Mister, Mister; Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo; The Wicked Cooks. Short plays belonging to the Theatre of the Absurd. Introduction by Marin Esslin. Translated by Ralph Manheim and A. Leslie Willson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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(NY 1967 1st Harcourt. Introduction by Martin Esslin. 8vo....)
NY 1967 1st Harcourt. Introduction by Martin Esslin. 8vo. , 289pp., hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ, like new.
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( The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of th...)
The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim’s outstanding translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. This edition, translated by Breon Mitchell, is more faithful to Grass’s style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. After more than fifty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass’s amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers. And Oskar’s midget friends—Bebra, the great circus master, and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke, the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews—waiting to be discovered and rediscovered.
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(On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oska...)
On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing. The same day he receives his first tin drum, which will be with him as he travels around Europe. He works as an artist's model, enrolls in a troupe of traveling musicians, deals in the black market, and becomes a leader of a group of anarchists. the drum will be the key to all Oskar's memories, even when some time after the war he is confined to a mental institution convicted of a murder he did not commit. Blurb in Spanish: El día de su tercer cumpleaños es un fecha determinante en la vida de Oscar, el pequeño que no quería crecer. No sólo es el día en que toma la decisión de dejar crecer, sino que recibe su primer tambor de hojalata, objeto que habrá de convertirse en compañero inseparable para el resto de sus días. La crítica mordaz, la ironía despiadada, el espectacular sentido del humor y la libertad creadora con que Günter Grass construye esta obra maestra convierten a "El tambor de hojalata" en uno de los títulos más deatacados de la historia de la literatura.
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( The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator...)
The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his prominent Adam’s apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke’s becoming a national hero. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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( A full-length play dealing with the German intellectual...)
A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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( A full-length play dealing with the German intellectual...)
A full-length play dealing with the German intellectuals' abandonment of the East German workers during their rebellion in 1953. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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( Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, ...)
Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. A satirical portrait of social confusions. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(GRASS, Günter. Local Anaesthetic. Translated by Ralph Man...)
GRASS, Günter. Local Anaesthetic. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. First US edition of this novel narrated from a dentist's chair. Fine in dust jacket with review slip laid in. Signed by Grass. / Erste amerikanische Ausgabe. Außergewöhnlich guter Zustand. originaler Schutzumschlag in sehr guter Erhaltung. Von Grass auf dem Titelblatt signiert. signed by Grass
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(Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From th...)
Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt. Underlying all is the snail, the central symbol that is both model and a parody of social progress, and a mysterious metaphor for political reform. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of The Tin Drum.
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( This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New P...)
This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New Poems (1968). The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(Three Volumes. 1985. GRASS, Gunter. The Flounder. Transla...)
Three Volumes. 1985. GRASS, Gunter. The Flounder. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Three volumes. Illustrated with 27 plates after drawings by Grass. Square 4to., bound in quarter white eel-skin over cloth boards, title printed on letter-press label on cover, in slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. One of 1000 copies, printed by the Wild Carrot Press on blue- gray Mohawk paper. Designed by Ben Shiff and signed on the colophon by Grass. The Flounder (Der Butt), first published in 1977, plays off the Grimms' fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife. Grass spins out a fantastical history of the struggles between the sexes, and simultaneously a history of cooks, from prehistoric to modern times. His marvelous tale is infused with wit, wisdom and interesting recipes. A beautiful production, containing Grass's own illustrations and bound in quarter white eel-skin (!). This number 962.
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( A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germ...)
A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Forster. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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( A record of the author's stay in Calcutta from August 1...)
A record of the author's stay in Calcutta from August 1987 to January 1988. A stunning document in Grass's own words and drawings. Translated by John E. Woods. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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(A German art historian and a Polish art restorer meet in ...)
A German art historian and a Polish art restorer meet in Gdan+a7sk and go into business together returning the remains of Germans exiled after the war to Danzig. By the author of Two States--One Nation. 15,000 first printing.
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( Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the f...)
Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen observer, and gifted speaker; and Ludwig Hoftaller, a mid-level spy who can serve the Prussian police, or the Gestapo, or the East German Stasi with equal dedication. Both men are employed by the Treuhand-the agency in charge of privatizing former East German state enterprises-which occupies the building in Berlin that was once the headquarters of Goering's Air Ministry. Wuttke, in his capacity as file courier, desperately tries to save the old-fashioned elevator, which has carried the famous and powerful up-and down again. And he comforts the disheartened head of the agency, who seeks relief from the burdens of office by roller skating around the corridors at night. This novel will stand as perhaps the most complex and challenging exploration of what Germany's recent reunification will mean-for Germans, for Europeans, for the world. Grass writes with the wit, fantasy, literary erudition, and political acerbity for which he is celebrated. And in his inimitable fashion, he tells a deeply human story laced with pain and humor in equal measure.
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( Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for...)
Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000 people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. While his mother sees her whole existence in terms of that calamitous moment, Paul wishes their life could have been less touched by the past. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's wartime suffering. "Scuttling backward to move forward," Crabwalk is at once a captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past. Winner of the Nobel Prize
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( In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning autho...)
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion—which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany—reveals Grass at his most intimate.
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( A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelm...)
A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes, and symbols. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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(Following the generally accepted premise that great novel...)
Following the generally accepted premise that great novels deserve to be re-translated every generation or so, Breon Mitchell has tackled the most important postwar German novel, and one which had already been translated by Ralph Manheim brilliantly into English not long after it appeared in German in 1959. But now a half-century has passed, and Mitchell's skills are awesome, indeed. He has leapt courageously into the deep end of Guenter Grass' linguistic inventiveness, some of which looks at first as if it will defy translation at all. But Mitchell has succeeded beyond any bilingual reader's expectations. THE TIN DRUM is still far richer in its original German, but Mitchell has rendered its wealth anew, and those readers who have yet to discover this masterpiece in English will be rewarded.
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( A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ...)
A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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( A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelm...)
A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes, and symbols. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
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(The story of a life, of a childhood in Danzig that ends w...)
The story of a life, of a childhood in Danzig that ends with the beginning of WWII. The family in a crowded two-room apartment - mother, father, sister, and the young Gunter, who collects cigarette cards featuring the masterpieces of Renaissance art, and dreams of enlisting in the submarine corps. At age ten, he joins the Jungvolk; at age fifteen, he volunteers for the navy, but is rejected. "A believer till the end... with untroubled, unquestioning fervor" - that is how Grass sees himself in his own rearview mirror. Two years later he is drafted and assigned to the Waffen-SS as a tank gunner. He is sent to the Eastern Front in the spring of 1945. Wounded, Grass ends up in an American POW camp when the war ends. There he spends time taking abstract cooking classes (no ingredients, just words) and playing dice with a pious fellow prisoner, a Bavarian by the name of Joseph...could it have been Joseph Ratzinger>? And it is there that, in disbelief, he first sees photographs of Bergen-Belsen. Released from camp, Grass hits the road - working deep underground in a mine near Hanover; carving tombstones and flirting with existentialism in Dusseldorf; making art and dancing to ragtime in Berlin with Anna, his first great love. He mourns his mother "who was born in pain and died in pain, and set me free to write and write". He begins work on his great novel, THE TIN DRUM. PEELING THE ONION is an amazing story of a life and a memoir of unsurpassed literary brilliance.
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(Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a German n...)
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely regarded as Germany's most famous living writer. Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In May 1945, after service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction he has frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, which includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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Grass, Günter Wilhelm was born on October 16, 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr (now Gdañsk), Poland. Son of Willy and Helene (Knoff) Grass.
Attended, Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany. Attended, Academy Fine Arts, Berlin. Doctor (honorary), Kenyon College, 1965.
Doctor (honorary), Harvard University, 1976.
Worked as farm laborer & miner, Düsseldorf, Berlin. Sculptor, graphic artist, writer Paris, Berlin, 1956—1959. Served with German Military Service, 1944-1946.
(Following the generally accepted premise that great novel...)
( A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelm...)
( A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelm...)
( A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germ...)
( In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning autho...)
(Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From th...)
( A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ...)
( Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for...)
(Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a German n...)
(A German art historian and a Polish art restorer meet in ...)
( Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, ...)
( The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of th...)
( A full-length play dealing with the German intellectual...)
( A full-length play dealing with the German intellectual...)
( Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the f...)
(On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oska...)
(The story of a life, of a childhood in Danzig that ends w...)
(Harm and Dörte Peters, the quintessential couple, are on...)
( A record of the author's stay in Calcutta from August 1...)
( Flood; Mister, Mister; Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo; The...)
( This selection combines Selected Poems (1966) and New P...)
(This is a fine first English edition signed by the author.)
( The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator...)
(German Literature, Literary Studies)
(NY 1967 1st Harcourt. Introduction by Martin Esslin. 8vo....)
(GRASS, Günter. Local Anaesthetic. Translated by Ralph Man...)
(Three Volumes. 1985. GRASS, Gunter. The Flounder. Transla...)
(Vietnamese. 967 pages.)
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Author: (works translated in English) The Wicked Cooks, 1956, The Flood, 1957, The Tin Drum, 1959, Cat and Mouse, 1963, Dog Years, 1965, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, 1966, Four Plays, 1967, Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries, 1969, Local Anaesthetic, 1970, Max, 1972, From the Diary of a Snail, 1973, In the Egg and Other Poems, 1977, The Flounder, 1978, The Meeting at Telgte, 1981, Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out, 1982, The Rat, 1987, Show Your Tongue, 1989, Two States One Nation?, 1990, The Call of the Toad, 1992, My Century, 1999, Too Far Afield, 2000, Crabwalk, 2002, Peeling the Onion, 2007, Dummer August, 2007, Die Box, 2008, numerous other works, poetry and plays in German.
Fellow: Royal Society Literature (honorary). Member: Berlin Academy Arts (president 1983-1986).
Married Anna Margareta Schwartz, 1954 (div. 1978); children: Franz, Raoul, Laura, Bruno. Married Ute Grunert, 1979.